Top Web Hosting

There are various varieties of web hosting packages appropriate for different web portals in terms of the resources or the web hosting platform they require. To select the most optimal web hosting service for your site, you need to calculate what server-side software programs it needs, how many daily visits you expect at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other specific needs that may need to be met.

Shared web hosting - Virtues

The most optimal choice for small online portals with a few hundred or a few thousand visitors is a shared hosting plan. With this type of hosting, each user pays only for their account, which decreases the total price per client noticeably. There are different web hosting plans varying from one provider to another, delivering different quotas of hard disk storage and monthly bandwidth, different email mailbox account quotas and so on. The plus is that you can get a package that will have the resources your online portal indeed needs. You will not have to pay plenty of money for an account you will not avail of, or wind up with a small size account that cannot accommodate the web page. We, at HostPapaya, offer an extensive assortment of web hosting accounts appropriate for personal or small business portals that even include pre-installed script-powered platforms such as Joomla, Mambo, Drupal or WordPress - to render things simpler. If you kick off with a low-cost account and you need more resources, upgrading to a more feature-rich account demands just a click of the mouse.

Shared Hosting - Disadvantages

A weakness of the shared website hosting environment is that the web servers have some software applications installed on them and you are unable to install additional software. Some web sites, especially online shops, request applications to be available on the web hosting server for them to perform, and with a shared web hosting package, you can install only software applications that do not require server root access.

VPS Web Hosting Servers and Dedicated Web Servers

For web sites that need server root access, or if your site has many 1000's or even 1 000 000's of daily viewers, what you need is a VPS hosting or a dedicated hosting. A VPS is a virtual imitation of a dedicated server and it behaves in an absolutely identical manner.

VPS Hosting Servers

Both platforms usually come with full root-level access and can be rebooted through a software program by the customer, independently from the web hosting supplier. Analogous to the shared website hosting packages, the VPS hosting and the dedicated web hosting packages contain different features based on what the hosting company has to offer. A Virtual Private Server hosting account includes guaranteed hard disk storage space, RAM and CPU usage quotas that can occasionally be expanded for brief periods of time in case there are unused system resources on the physical server. With a dedicated web hosting server, the only limiting factor is the hardware architecture it is making use of, and it can be upgraded by altering or adding components. A private virtual web server is easier to tackle as it comes with a virtualization console, which can be utilized to restart it, to install software applications, explore statistics, and so on. The administration of a dedicated server is more complicated, so such an account would rather be used by practiced customers.

Dedicated Web Hosting Servers

Nonetheless, given web hosting corporations offer managed dedicated hosting solutions where they implement web hosting server management operations instead of the customer. This can be a part of package or an extra service.

Prior To Selecting...

Picking the top hosting plan is vital as it can affect the stable operation of a web portal. Before selecting a package, compare the pros and cons, check thoroughly all the requirements for the website to work properly, particularly if it is script-powered. And if you are still not sure which one is the best web hosting service for you, ask our live chat operators or give us a call - our sales reps will be happy to help you and answer all your questions.